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Abortion :
HR 476. Transporting Minors for Abortions/Vote to Recommit to Committee a Bill to Criminalize the Transport of Minors
Across State Lines to Obtain an Abortion.
(2002 house Roll Call 96)

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HR 476. Transporting Minors for Abortions/Vote to Recommit to Committee a Bill to Criminalize the Transport of Minors
Across State Lines to Obtain an Abortion.

Many states had laws on the books requiring minors to obtain parental consent before receiving and abortion. To prevent girls from crossing state lines to evade these laws, Republicans proposed a bill that made it a federal crime to transport a minor for that purpose. Though the law exempted the minor from prosecution, it threatened the transporter with up to a year in prison and a $100,000 fine. Progressives argued that this bill would encourage unsafe, back-alley abortions. Furthermore, they argued that in the case of incest it might actually require a girl to seek permission for an abortion from the person who raped her. In an attempt to ease the bill's restrictions, Jackson-Lee (D-TX) moved to recommit (send back) the bill to its committee with instructions to add an exemption for a minor's adult siblings, grandparents, or religious leaders. Progressives voted for this motion, but it was rejected 173-246.